Improved weather-strip



dimitri tant talent (itilllwr COLEMAN HICKS, OF LANCASTER, KENTUCKY.

Letters Patent No. 93,883, dated August 17, 1869.

IMPROVED WEATHER-STRIP.

The Schedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making partvof the same..

'ing and mounting a weather-strip ou the inside of a house or a room in a house, in combination with the carpet-sill, that when not in use it may remain with its upper edge iiush with the surface ofthe carpetsill, but which, when it is desired to use it?, may be thrown up so as to cover the space between the bottom of the door and the carpet-sill, and thus exclude wind, rain, snow, and dust .from theapartment, and at the same time do duty as a bar to prevent the .entrance of burglar-s, in the event of their picking the To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawingsings, carpet-sill, and weather-strip, and catch-spring t, as seen from the inside ofthe room.

Figure 2 represents a like view of theilower part of a door oor, I), and the exterior section C' of the carpet-sill.

Figure 3 represents a like Yiewof lower part of a door, the weather-strip, and its spring 1.

Figure l represents a. cross vertical sectional View taken through th'e line xi/ of tig. 1.

Figure 5 represents a likev 4view of the interior sccti'on ofthe carpetsill,'ot' the catch-spring b and its pin c, of the pin-hole h, the. strip l?, its slot i, taken through the line 151;, iig. l, the strip being down.

Figure 6 represents a. like View, taken through the same parts, the strip being up.

Fig-ure 7 represents a i'ront view of the middle portion oi' the weather-strip, showing more plainly the pin-hole h. and the slot i, as well asa cross-seotion ofthe same. I

The exterior section of the carpet-sill C' may have the forni shown in tig. 2..

Its front edge, coming up flush with the door on the inside, when closed, may be made of metal or any other suitable material. f

The interior section, C may bc made of like material, and have the form shown' in iig. 1, and fastened down to the floor by the screws f f f.

The weather-strip itself 'may be made of metal, either wrought or cast, or of vany suitable material, and has the form shown in gs..3 and 7.

In iig. 3 it is shownin position, with the edge of its flat plane straight bar upward, and with a ange ex tending from its lower edge to the right and left, and toward theiuterior'of the room.

This flange extends under the interior ot' the carpet-sill, which prevents the bar from being forced by the spring higher than the point dcsired.

Under the bottoni of this strip is bolted tol it'the spring I, as shown in iig. 3.

The feet of the spring, which may be made ofsteel or of any suitable'material, and of any degree of thickness that may be desired, may rest in de` pressions made iu the door, and these depressions maybe covered with plates of metal, if desired, -to prevent the wearing away of the wood, 4or to secure smooth, easy action.

When pressure is applied to the top of? the bar, the

feet of the spring are, of course, extended, and are, on the other hand, retracted when the pressure is removed.

1n constructing the interior section of the carpet-l sill, a recess is made in the edge of it next the door,

and of the length and thickness ofthe bar ofthe weather-strip, and the bar will be about as long as Figure l represents a plan view oi' a door, with fac-1 v the door is wide. V

According to my design, the bar, when down., will have its top edge on a. level with the carpetssill, and when up, its top edge may be a lia-lf inch or more highcr, and that may be easily raised or depressed at will.

The spring will be made toA hare such a. degree of stitiness as to hold the vhar up as high as the interior of the carpet-sill will allow it to, and hold the bar down uslr with the sill.

I construct and fasten the catch-spring b in a suitable recess made in the sloping surface of the carpet-sill, so 'that the top of the spring may be flush with the general surface of the sill.

Upon the outcr end ot' the spring is fixed a catolipin, c, which extends through a hole in the sill C, and, when the weather-strip is down, through a hole, h, through its bar, as shown in g.

But when it is desired to raise the bar, force is applied under the end ot' the spring b, by means of any simple instrument. Then pin o is withdrawn, andthe bar is thrown up by the spring b, as shown in fig. But to Vfacilitate this operation, a slot, ji, is cut in the flange of the bar, to receive the pin c of the eatch-l spring, when the bar is up.'

'When the bar is up, a slight pressure on thc top edge will depress it, until the hole h, reaches the point ot' pin c, whenthe catch-spring b will force the pin into the hole, and secure the bar down.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l 1. The described wcatherstrip, operated 'by the posedof sections C and G,.when all are constructed' l Spring I, and adjusted by means of the catch-spring and arranged substantially als and for the purpose deb, with its pin c, all constructed, arranged, and in scribed'.

combination, substantially as and for the purpose COLEliIAN HICKS. described. t Witnesses:

2. The described weather-strip, spring I, eatch- A. M. STOUT, Jr.,

spring b, pin c, in combination with carpet-sill comlEDVMRD G. FAST. 

